Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Newburgh, N.Y., Mickey...
With a birthday party and a homecoming in the same week, Buckingham Palace was a bustling place for parents, grandparents and small fry alike. Prince Charles a vigorous three, snuffed out his candles with one puff, and highly approved his cake decorated with candy figures of his heroes, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto. For the papers and people of Britain, a picture of the party also provided a reassuring view of King George VI, the first one since his recent lung operation. It was, said the Daily Mirror, "a picture that will cheer the heart of the nation...
Florabel, once winged when she was following Racketeer Mickey Cohen, and he was fired upon by business rivals (the News then let her put a bulletproof corset on her expense account), had Tone arrested and jailed for assault. But, though she is an old tabloid hand, she didn't think the fuss was Newsworthy until the paper wired her to write...
...nothing to do with the improvement in Cambridge government. The most vociferous opponents are City Council members not endorsed by the CCA. Councillor John D. Lynch, once CCA-endorsed, contends: "To a certain extent, the CCA is machine politics." Even more critical is Edward J. Sullivan, son of "Mickey the Dood" Sullivan, one of Cambridge's most colorful politicians. Councillor Sullivan maintains that the CCA has never done, and will never do, anything for Cambridge. "The CCA is definitely machine politics," he claims, "and the city manager is drunk with power...
...Mickey Mantle of the Yankees was injured too, early in the second series game. His replacement, Hank Bauer, a better hitter and far better fielder than Mantle, drove in the winning three runs yesterday with a two-out three-and-two pitch triple. Now, one out away from victory, Bauer raced in for Yvars' Texas Leaguer and caught it on the slide for what many consider the best fielding play of the series...